Introduction
Kylie Cardell
1. Writing (from) the Rubble: Reflections on the August 4, 2020 Explosion in Beirut, Lebanon
Sleiman El Hajj
2. Will the Real Subject Please Stand Up? Autobiographical Voices in Biography
Karen Lamb
3. Speculative Biography and Countering Archival Absences of Women Clowns in the Circus
Katerina Bryant
4. ‘A Man of Violent and Ungovernable Temper’: Can Fiction Fill Silences in the Archives?
Katherine E Collins
5. Killing the Silent Witness: The Benefits of an Authorial Stance as Interpreter in Future- focused Natural Biography
Sarah Pye
6. How to be a Fan in the Age of Problematic Faves
Matt Bucher and Grace Chipperfield
7. Letter Writing and Space for Women’s Self- expression in Janet Frame’s Owls Do Cry and Jane Campion’s An Angel at My Table
Hannah Matthews
8. In Parallel With My Actual Diary: On Re- writing an Exile
Chris Campanioni
9. Metaphor and Neonatal Death: How Stories Can Help When a Baby Dies at Birth
Tamarin Norwood
10. Three Wheels on My Wagon: An Account of an Attempt to Use Life Writing to Access Shared Family Narratives After Bereavement
Jane Hughes
11. Becoming a Traitor
Linus Hagström
12. My Obscure Career as an Aspiring Poet
Eugene Stelzig
13. Archive of the (Mostly) Unspoken: A Queer Project of Caring for the Dead
Margot Francis
Biography
Kylie Cardell is Senior Lecturer in English at Flinders University, South Australia. She is the author of Dear World: Contemporary Uses of the Diary, and editor (with Kate Douglas) of Telling Tales: Autobiographies of Childhood and Youth. Kylie is executive member for the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) Asia-Pacific and co-directs the Flinders Life Narrative Research Group (Flinders University). She is the Essays editor for the scholarly Australian journal Life Writing.
